{"id":9173,"date":"2022-06-19T16:33:56","date_gmt":"2022-06-19T21:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artsudbury.org\/?post_type=exhibitions&p=9173"},"modified":"2022-10-03T10:32:41","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T15:32:41","slug":"through-the-camera-lens-la-cloche-1900-1950","status":"publish","type":"exhibitions","link":"https:\/\/artsudbury.org\/en\/whats-on\/exhibitions\/through-the-camera-lens-la-cloche-1900-1950\/","title":{"rendered":"Through the Camera Lens: La Cloche, 1900-1950"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Jon <\/strong>and Kerry Butler <\/strong>have been collecting and conserving photographs from the families of the Willisville and La Cloche areas of Ontario for the past 20 years. Through this archiving process, and that of collecting the family stories and community histories that the photographs inspire, the Butlers have become regional experts on the histories and genealogies of La Cloche. Drawing on their years of research and image collection in the La Cloche region and beyond, Through the Camera Lens: La Cloche, 1900-1950<\/strong> includes over 130 photographs (and artifacts) that picture the lives and tell the stories of residents of the eastern La Cloche area of the District of Greater Sudbury, including Willisville, Charlton Lake, Whitefish Falls, Bay of Islands, McGregor Bay, Iroquois Bay, Grace Lake and Cranberry Bay as seen through the eyes of settler and visitor photographers. The La Cloche area was the subject of many of Group of Seven artists Franklin Carmichael\u2019s watercolours and paintings. This exhibition, Through the Camera Lens: La Cloche, 1900-1950<\/strong>, provides significant context for future major exhibitions of Carmichael\u2019s work and that of his contemporaries at the Art Gallery of Sudbury. Mining, lumbering and the railway initially brought settlers to the interior of the La Cloche area in the early 1900s. Their lives were captured on film for future generations. The lakes and rivers of the watershed were seasonal travel routes linking the Hudson Bay Post on Whitefish Lake, near Sudbury, and connecting it to Lake Huron. The Algoma Eastern Railway (AER), Linking Espanola to Little Current, was completed between 1911 and 1913, and settlement quickly expanded beyond the shores of Lake Huron. The North Channel and inland lakes became summer destinations for travellers and artists as they found this beautiful area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n